Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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| more vital then 1gbit fiber
the connector for the houseboat fiber could possibly make it easier to bring fiber to other land applications. maybe even make FTTH installs easier and more efficent here on dry land.
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iansltx
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| At the moment I have to agree that no residence needs gigabit fiber (more connectivity than my whole school has!) but 100 Mbps would be nice, or even 50 Mbps (which is well within spec for 802.11n). Instead, we in the US are left with something generally less than one percent of those speeds. Lame.
hen WAN connectivity is limited by residential-grade LAN equipment, then we have progress  |
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DaMaGeINC
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1 edit | Not at my house! I got 2Gig links connecting a few things here.
pictures soon. |
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swhitney2003
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It makes you wonder how long it will be until everything is wired with light in a household. toslink anyone?
I'd love to have everything in my household be gigabit... but really have nothing pushing me to do so, computers are barely capable of putting a huge, consistent strain on 100mbps. When media devices start being wired through my network, I might consider. |
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swhitney2003
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said by DaMaGeINC  :Not at my house! I got 2Gig links connecting a few things here. Just curious, what does one do with so much allotted bandwidth? Are they business class links? |
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DaMaGeINC
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1 edit | These are "in house" connections. Like switch to server, pc to pc. I have the capacity, just not the WAN connections to support it.
ps, everything is gigabit in my house, just a few things are connected with 2gb/s links. |
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swhitney2003
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clubs: | ah okay. that makes much more sense  |
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dadkins
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Try moving a ripped Blu-ray or Acronis image across your LAN - like 24-46GB.
Here with two gigabit laptops, it isn't that bad.
When transferring to the other laptop - 100mbps, it takes a while. 
Pounding gigabit through a poor DI614's switch cruises at 195mbps. Eh...
Directly connected to the other laptop - it flies!
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Anonymous_
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| reply to swhitney2003
said by swhitney2003 :It makes you wonder how long it will be until everything is wired with light in a household. toslink anyone? toslink is only 11mbps |
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swhitney2003
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| said by Anonymous_ :said by swhitney2003 :It makes you wonder how long it will be until everything is wired with light in a household. toslink anyone? toslink is only 11mbps Yes that is true. What I was getting at was a move from electrical wiring to optical wiring. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
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| Why when the copper is easily capable of Gbps+ speeds at relatively short distances. Until fiber patch cables cost me less than CAT6 patch cables, there isn't much reason to worry about fiber in the home. The biggest motivation to switch to fiber that I can think of is to avoid electrical interference. |
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Mchart
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| said by openbox9 :Why when the copper is easily capable of Gbps+ speeds at relatively short distances. Until fiber patch cables cost me less than CAT6 patch cables, there isn't much reason to worry about fiber in the home. The biggest motivation to switch to fiber that I can think of is to avoid electrical interference. The biggest motivation to move to fiber is the fact that CAT-6 cabling can only move 1000Base-T 100 meters in natshit free conditions (In reality no more then 50 meters). With 10Gig UTP it becomes somewhat of a joke as the most i've seen it go is 15 meters. OK when you need to go from one IGX in a facility to another, but bad if you want to do just about anything else. |
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openbox9
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Alexandria, VA | And we're talking about a home network where electrical noise tends to be prevalent. Your "natshit free conditions" highlights my point for a requirement to replace copper with fiber in a residence. |
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